Candy Bars Worth Crossing State Lines For

A field guide to great American treats.

The Idaho senator offers up a recipe, and Foodgoat doesn’t need Freud to interpret it.

My no-gift orphan Xmas.

Coming to a deep fryer near you: “gene-silenced” spuds for your french fries.

The passing of a major Idaho potato magnate is a time for reflection, fries.

A few years ago I ordered as Christmas gifts a wonderful sampler of regional candies from all over America. I can’t remember the company that created the box of candies. It contained things like Idaho Spud, Nut Goodie, Goo...

-Zaba in California, Owyhee’s Idaho Spuds, and Pearson’s Nut Goodies in Minnesota.

Stopped in at Young’s on Broadway in Redwood City today and saw that they indeed have Nut Goodies. They also had some other candies that I consider “old time.” Mallow cups, Idaho spud etc. I am just posting...

tasty. But, its a stretch to really call it a french fry. A great fry comes from an Idaho spud and needs to be fried twice or once from an absolute cold oil start. I want to try this place – heard good things re it.

You probably got some leftover from last years crop, there were some bad potatoes still in the market from that awful crop here this early fall. The last month or so you can tell they’re so much fresher, as in freshly...

I bought a big bag of oversized Idaho spuds at Costco. Whenever the oven is on, I throw a few in, next to the walls because it’s hotter there. James Beard recommended long baking time, which yields a caramelized layer of...

Our favorite, flavorful potato is a five-pound bag of what appear to be generic Eastern Potatoes from a local chain grocer. We find they carry so much more nuance and, well, flavor than starchy, flavorless Idaho's. The only...

Yep, they tell you where the spuds they turn into your fries were harvested (mine came from Rigby, Idaho) — maybe the cattle ranchers are embarassed? I was very surprised when the cashier didn’t ask me how I wanted my...

with an unrelenting obsession centered around obscure candy bars. My question is, where can I find such regional rarities as the Clark Bar, the Valomilk, the Twin Bing, and the Idaho Spud? Will I have to order them? Or is there a...

Be sure to use all-purpose or boiling potatoes rather than the russet/Idaho mealy baking potatoes. If you use tiny haute cuisine spuds you don’t even have to peel them.